{"id":64,"date":"2005-06-19T21:41:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T05:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/06\/19\/two-top-guns-shoot-blanks\/"},"modified":"2005-06-19T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T05:41:31","slug":"two-top-guns-shoot-blanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/06\/two-top-guns-shoot-blanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Two top guns shoot blanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The New York Times<\/i>&#8216; Frank Rich has done more to expose fake news than just about anyone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/19\/opinion\/19rich.html?pagewanted=all\">In his column today<\/a>, he draws a parallel between the war in Iraq and H.G. Wells&#8217; <i>War of the Worlds<\/i>&#8230;and between W and Tom Cruise (star of Speilberg&#8217;s cinematic adaptation of Wells&#8217; classic story).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shelf life of the fakery that sold the war has also expired. On June 7, a Washington Post\/ABC News poll found for the first time that a majority of Americans believe the war in Iraq has not made the United States safer. A week later Gallup found that a clear majority (59 percent) wants to withdraw some or all American troops. Most Americans tell pollsters the war isn&#8217;t &#8220;worth it,&#8221; and the top reasons they cite, said USA Today, include &#8220;fraudulent claims and no weapons of mass destruction found&#8221; and &#8220;the belief that Iraq posed no threat to the United States.&#8221; The administration can keep boasting of the Iraqi military&#8217;s progress in taking over for Americans and keep maintaining that, as Dick Cheney put it, the insurgency is in its &#8220;last throes.&#8221; But when even the conservative Republican congressman who pushed the House cafeteria to rename French fries &#8220;freedom fries&#8221; (Walter B. Jones of North Carolina) argues for withdrawal, it&#8217;s fruitless. Once a story line becomes incredible, it&#8217;s hard to get the audience to fall for it again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8216; Frank Rich has done more to expose fake news than just about anyone. In his column today, he draws a parallel between the war in Iraq and H.G. Wells&#8217; War of the Worlds&#8230;and between W and Tom Cruise (star of Speilberg&#8217;s cinematic adaptation of Wells&#8217; classic story). The shelf life of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}